Oracle Baby
Erica Mendritzki & Ufuk Ali Gueray

April 28 — May 26, 2024
open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 27th, 2-5pm

Gallery Hop: Saturday, May 11th, 10am-5pm

Oracle Baby is an exhibition of recent paintings by Erica Mendritzki and Ufuk Ali Gueray.

Erica Mendritzki is an artist based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, where she is a professor of Painting and Drawing at NSCAD University. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph (2012) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal (2006). Her work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Erica Mendritzki: Irdischer Durst at the Galerie der Stadt Herrenberg in Germany, and Cold Pastoral at the Ionian Center for the Arts and Culture, in Kefalonia, Greece.

Ufuk Ali Gueray was born in Herrenberg, Germany, and has lived in Germany, Canada and Scotland. They hold a BFA in Studio Art and French Studies from Concordia University, and an MFA in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art. From 2013 to 2018, they taught painting, drawing, and printmaking at the University of Manitoba School of Art. In 2014, they received an Honourable Mention in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. In 2017, they participated in the Manitoba Arts Council's Deep Bay Artists’ Residency in Riding Mountain National Park. In 2018, they received a Major Arts Grant as well as the Brooklyn Visual Arts Residency grant from the Manitoba Arts Council, and spent the spring of 2018 as artist-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Williamsburg, New York.

They now live in Kjipuktuk/Halifax where they make art and occasionally teach at NSCAD.